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Bayou La Batre, Alabama, is a fishing village with a seafood-processing harbor for fishing boats and shrimp boats

Bayou La Batre, Alabama, is a fishing village with a seafood-processin...

The local Chamber of Commerce has described the city as the "Seafood Capital of Alabama" for packaging seafood from hundreds of fishing boats. Bayou La Batre was the first permanent settlement on the south Mobi... More

Detail of the historic Adolphus Hotel in downtown Dallas, Texas

Detail of the historic Adolphus Hotel in downtown Dallas, Texas

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Designed by Thomas P. Barnett of Barnett, Haynes & Barnett of St. Louis and built by the founder of the Anheuser-Busch Company, Adolp... More

Wooden barn and silo near Decatur, Alabama

Wooden barn and silo near Decatur, Alabama

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Phot... More

Young Kate Frommert enjoys all the Easter trimmings at the Three Georges Southern Chocolate Candy Store on Dauphin Street, Mobile, Alabama

Young Kate Frommert enjoys all the Easter trimmings at the Three Georg...

Founded in 1917 by George Coudopolos, George Sparr, and George Pappas, Three Georges Candy was an immediate hit. By 1922, the company expanded into the Dauphin Street location. Title, date, subject note, and ke... More

Rock Creek Park, NW, Washington, D.C.

Rock Creek Park, NW, Washington, D.C.

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of District of Columbia Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Pr... More

Talladega Superspeedway Race, Talladega, Alabama

Talladega Superspeedway Race, Talladega, Alabama

Talladega Superspeedway is a motorsports complex that opened in 1969. The track hosts the NASCAR series. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegge... More

Gillette's estate, East Haddam, Connecticut

Gillette's estate, East Haddam, Connecticut

Built in 1914, the estate is located on top of a chain of hills known as the Seven Sisters. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection ... More

One of the clerestory stained-glass windows at Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church in Mission, Texas

One of the clerestory stained-glass windows at Our Lady of Guadalupe C...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The mission-revival-style structure, completed in 1927, also features a four- story tower capped by a domed belfry, mission parapets,... More

Scene from the "Battle of Flowers" parade, part of the monthlong Fiesta San Antonio celebration in Texas

Scene from the "Battle of Flowers" parade, part of the monthlong Fiest...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. First held in 1891 to honor the heroes of the Alamo and the Battle of San Jacinto, the parade, in which local women decorated carriag... More

The 1916 Italianate-style Villa Laguna Gloria, one of two sites of the contemporary-art museum known locally in Austin, Texas, as simply "The Contemporary"

The 1916 Italianate-style Villa Laguna Gloria, one of two sites of the...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Part of the State of Texas's official longhorn herd, kept at Fort Griffin, a state historic site in Shackelford County, Texas

Part of the State of Texas's official longhorn herd, kept at Fort Grif...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Fort Griffin was once a fort and townsite that served as part of the line of defensive forts from 1867 to 1881. Credit line: The Lyda ... More

Goose Pond Colony Park in Scottsboro, Alabama

Goose Pond Colony Park in Scottsboro, Alabama

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Phot... More

Coosa River Bridge in Gadsden, Alabama

Coosa River Bridge in Gadsden, Alabama

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Phot... More

[Capitol Park showing reconstructed architectural features of the old capitol building, Tuscaloosa, Alabama]

[Capitol Park showing reconstructed architectural features of the old ...

A little-known fact is that Tuscaloosa was actually the state capitol before Montgomery from 1826 to 1846. This site uses actual bricks and stonework from the original building to outline the ground floor and p... More

A clock that depicts African Americans and Booker T. Washington in a degrading light, found in a box of antiques linked to Booker T. Washington and Frances Benjamin Johnston, in Cordova, Alabama

A clock that depicts African Americans and Booker T. Washington in a d...

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Phot... More

Kenilworth Park and Aquatic Gardens, also known as Anacostia Park, NE, Washington, D.C.

Kenilworth Park and Aquatic Gardens, also known as Anacostia Park, NE,...

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of District of Columbia Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Pr... More

Wisteria covers the front view of this historic home in Selma, Alabama

Wisteria covers the front view of this historic home in Selma, Alabama

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Phot... More

HillBilly Mall, Tuskegee, Alabama

HillBilly Mall, Tuskegee, Alabama

HillBilly Mall is built with recycled materials: trees from the last big April storm in Notasulga, a used rusty tin from an old demolished house leftover materials gathered from here and there mostly free! Titl... More

Sloss Furnace, Birmingham, Alabama

Sloss Furnace, Birmingham, Alabama

Colonel James Withers Sloss, a north Alabama merchant and railroad man built Sloss Furnace. Harry Hargreaves, a European-born engineer, was in charge of construction. Sixty feet high and eighteen feet in diamet... More

Kreme Delight, Athens, Alabama - Drawing. Public domain image.

Kreme Delight, Athens, Alabama - Drawing. Public domain image.

Founded in 1842, the city of Athens is located 15 miles from the Tennessee State line in Limestone County. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landeg... More

[Librarian's Room. Detail of mural and architectural ornamentation. Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C.]

[Librarian's Room. Detail of mural and architectural ornamentation. Li...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historical building, landmark architecture, world heritage, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Greenwood Cemetery is the original cemetery in Tuscaloosa, Alabama

Greenwood Cemetery is the original cemetery in Tuscaloosa, Alabama

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Phot... More

Reenactment of Civil War siege of April 1862, Bridgeport, Alabama

Reenactment of Civil War siege of April 1862, Bridgeport, Alabama

Located in Northeast Alabama on the Tennessee River, Bridgeport was a strategic town on the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad during the American Civil War. More than one conflict was fought at and near Bridge... More

Mardi Gras, Mobile, Alabama - Drawing. Public domain image.

Mardi Gras, Mobile, Alabama - Drawing. Public domain image.

Date from other Mardi Gras images in same group. Mardi Gras began in Mobile, Alabama in 1703 when it was a colony of French soldiers. Colorful beads and Moon Pies (two large cookies with marshmellow in between ... More

Adams Morgan is a culturally diverse neighborhood in NW, Washington, D.C.

Adams Morgan is a culturally diverse neighborhood in NW, Washington, D...

Centered at the intersection of 18th St. and Columbia Rd., Adams Morgan is considered the center of Washington's Hispanic immigrant community, and is a major night life area with many bars and restaurants, part... More

Dinosaur Park, Rapid City, South Dakota

Dinosaur Park, Rapid City, South Dakota

Dinosaur Park is a tourist attraction in Rapid City, South Dakota, United States. Dedicated on May 22, 1936, it contains seven dinosaur sculptures on a hill overlooking the city, created to capitalize on the to... More

The 1984 painting "Matilda Lockhart Comes Home," by artist Lee Herring, displayed at the Buffalo Gap Historic Village in the unincorporated Taylor County, Texas, town of the same name, near Abilene

The 1984 painting "Matilda Lockhart Comes Home," by artist Lee Herring...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The museum showcases fifteen outdoor structures and West Texas artifacts that reach back to the late 19th century and the early 20th ... More

Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament of Our Lady of the Angels Monastery, Hanceville, Alabama

Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament of Our Lady of the Angels Monaste...

Just over an hour from Huntsville in Hanceville, Alabama near Cullman, you can witness a magnificent shrine with an unusual story. A cloistered community, where the nuns take vows of poverty, chastity, and obed... More

Scene from the "Battle of Flowers" parade, part of the monthlong Fiesta San Antonio celebration in Texas

Scene from the "Battle of Flowers" parade, part of the monthlong Fiest...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. First held in 1891 to honor the heroes of the Alamo and the Battle of San Jacinto, the parade, in which local women decorated carriag... More

A portion of a huge mural, depicting Texas history, inside the Hall of State, the grand exhibition hall for Texas itself at the 1936 Texas Centennial Exposition at Fair Park in Dallas, Texas

A portion of a huge mural, depicting Texas history, inside the Hall of...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gigantic columns close to the north wall on which the mural appears make a photograph of the painting in toto impossible. The park, w... More

Historic buildings and antiques in Mooresville, Alabama

Historic buildings and antiques in Mooresville, Alabama

Picryl description: Public domain image of a small palace, chateau, villa, residential historic building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

The Conservatory of Flowers, San Francisco, California

The Conservatory of Flowers, San Francisco, California

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. A greenhouse and botanical garden with a collection of rare and exotic plants in Golden Gate Park. With construction completed in 1878, it remains the old... More

Unclaimed Baggage is a one-of-a-kind store located in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, Scottsboro, Alabama

Unclaimed Baggage is a one-of-a-kind store located in the foothills of...

Founded in 1970 by Doyle and Sue Owens. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's Ameri... More

Statue in Fair Park in Dallas, Texas, dedicated to the builders of the structures for the 1936 Texas Centennial Exposition on the grounds, which produced the lion's share of buidings in the park

Statue in Fair Park in Dallas, Texas, dedicated to the builders of the...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

[Detail of Spanish Colonial History mural by Daniel Sayre Groesbeck at the Santa Barbara County Courthouse, Santa Barbara, California]

[Detail of Spanish Colonial History mural by Daniel Sayre Groesbeck at...

The Santa Barbara County Courthouse was designed by William Mooser, III, built in a Spanish Colonial Revival style, and completed in 1929. Title information from Santa Barbara Courthouse website, 2013. Title, d... More

The Moore/Webb/Holmes Plantation and out buildings (circa 1819), Folsom, Alabama

The Moore/Webb/Holmes Plantation and out buildings (circa 1819), Folso...

Most of the buildings are original to the site. This is one of Alabama's last active plantations, which has been in the same family since the early 1800s. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the... More

Portion of the herb garden at Log Cabin Village, a living-history museum complex in Fort Worth, Texas, owned and operated by the City of Fort Worth

Portion of the herb garden at Log Cabin Village, a living-history muse...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The garden is a partnership between Log Cabin Village and the Greater Fort Worth Herb Society. Staff of these organizations research a... More

Mardi Gras beads hang in a tree for weeks after Mardi Gras in Mobile, Alabama

Mardi Gras beads hang in a tree for weeks after Mardi Gras in Mobile, ...

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Phot... More

Civil War bas relief on the Pension Building, 401 F St., NW, Washington, D.C.

Civil War bas relief on the Pension Building, 401 F St., NW, Washingto...

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of District of Columbia Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Pr... More

Gee's Bend, Alabama - A woman and a child working on a quilt

Gee's Bend, Alabama - A woman and a child working on a quilt

Public domain photograph of quilt, needlework, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Montgomery Museum of Fine Art, Montgomery, Alabama

Montgomery Museum of Fine Art, Montgomery, Alabama

Public domain photograph - historical image of Alabama, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Cubans dress up and pose for the tourist camera like these women on the Plaza de la Cathedral Square in Havana, Cuba

Cubans dress up and pose for the tourist camera like these women on th...

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith; 2010; (DLC/PP-2... More

The Alabama River Pulp Company and the Claiborne Mill Complex, Claiborne, Alabama

The Alabama River Pulp Company and the Claiborne Mill Complex, Claibor...

Since 1978, the Alabama River Pulp Company and the Claiborne Mill Complex have been producing southern softwood and hardwood kraft pulps for the paper producers service markets around the globe. Parsons & Whitt... More

Testing platform, Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, Alabama

Testing platform, Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, Alabama

Known as a sportsman's paradise, Redstone Arsenal is located in the heart of the Tennessee Valley in northern Alabama. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Geor... More

Grave of Booker T. Washington located at Tuskegee University, Tuskegee, Alabama

Grave of Booker T. Washington located at Tuskegee University, Tuskegee...

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Phot... More

Fishing in Monroe County, Alabama

Fishing in Monroe County, Alabama

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Phot... More

Scene from the "Battle of Flowers" parade, part of the monthlong Fiesta San Antonio celebration in Texas

Scene from the "Battle of Flowers" parade, part of the monthlong Fiest...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. First held in 1891 to honor the heroes of the Alamo and the Battle of San Jacinto, the parade, in which local women decorated carriag... More

Rikard's Mill, near Beatrice, Alabama

Rikard's Mill, near Beatrice, Alabama

Built by Jacob Rikard about 1840, it is a working grist mill. Run by the power of water from Flat Creek that runs under it, the mill has been grinding corn into meal and grits ever since. Credit line: The Georg... More

Mission San Carlos Borroméo del río Carmelo, Carmel Mission, Carmel, California

Mission San Carlos Borroméo del río Carmelo, Carmel Mission, Carmel, C...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. A Roman Catholic mission church in Carmel, California. It is on the National Register of Historic Places and a U.S. National Historic Landmark. Destroyed... More

Mardi Gras, Mobile, Alabama - Drawing. Public domain image.

Mardi Gras, Mobile, Alabama - Drawing. Public domain image.

Date from other Mardi Gras images in same group. Mardi Gras began in Mobile, Alabama in 1703 when it was a colony of French soldiers. Colorful beads and Moon Pies (two large cookies with marshmellow in between ... More

Reenactment of Civil War siege of April 1862, Bridgeport, Alabama

Reenactment of Civil War siege of April 1862, Bridgeport, Alabama

Located in Northeast Alabama on the Tennessee River, Bridgeport was a strategic town on the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad during the American Civil War. More than one conflict was fought at and near Bridge... More

Row houses, Shepherd St. near Georgia Ave., NW, Washington, D.C.

Row houses, Shepherd St. near Georgia Ave., NW, Washington, D.C.

Public domain photograph of home, residence, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Adventureland Theme Park Miniature Golf, Dothan, Alabama

Adventureland Theme Park Miniature Golf, Dothan, Alabama

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Phot... More

Art adorns a beautiful dress at the Art Festival, Fairhope, Alabama

Art adorns a beautiful dress at the Art Festival, Fairhope, Alabama

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Phot... More

15 Belgo Road, Lakeville, Connecticut

15 Belgo Road, Lakeville, Connecticut

Architect: Alfredo De Vito. Built in 1985. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Connecticut Photographs in the Carol M. Highsm... More

The statue of Clio, muse of history, dominates the Clio, or lower, garden at the Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens in the River Oaks neighborhood of Houston, Texas

The statue of Clio, muse of history, dominates the Clio, or lower, gar...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Over 50 years, philanthropist and art collector Ima Hogg amassed a collection of American paintings and decorative pieces throughout ... More

Stairway in hall, Sturdivant Hall, Selma, Alabama

Stairway in hall, Sturdivant Hall, Selma, Alabama

Sturdivant Hall, also known as the Watts-Parkman-Gillman Home, is a historic Greek Revival mansion and house museum in Selma, Alabama. Completed in 1856, it was designed by Thomas Helm Lee for Colonel Edward T.... More

Portion of the herb garden at Log Cabin Village, a living-history museum complex in Fort Worth, Texas, owned and operated by the City of Fort Worth

Portion of the herb garden at Log Cabin Village, a living-history muse...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The garden is a partnership between Log Cabin Village and the Greater Fort Worth Herb Society. Staff of these organizations research a... More

Girls have been summering and splashing at Camp Waldemar, near Hunt in the Texas Hill Country, since 1926

Girls have been summering and splashing at Camp Waldemar, near Hunt in...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Ph... More

McMillan Reservoir, Washington, D.C.

McMillan Reservoir, Washington, D.C.

The reservoir supplies the majority of the city's municipal water. Originally called the Howard University Reservoir or the Washington City Reservoir, it was completed in 1902 by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineer... More

Historic buildings in Cullman, Alabama

Historic buildings in Cullman, Alabama

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Phot... More

The Hopkins County Courthouse in Sulphur Springs in northeast Texas

The Hopkins County Courthouse in Sulphur Springs in northeast Texas

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Considered by many to rank among the most attractive of Texas's 254 current county courthouses, the Romanesque-style, granite-and-sand... More

The Moore/Webb/Holmes Plantation and out buildings (circa 1819), Folsom, Alabama

The Moore/Webb/Holmes Plantation and out buildings (circa 1819), Folso...

Public domain photograph of a barn, farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Rattlesnake Rodeo in Opp, Alabama

Rattlesnake Rodeo in Opp, Alabama

Eastern Diamondback rattlesnakes have been rattling since the dawn of time, but they have been a main attraction in Opp, Alabama, for the past 48 years. Mr. J.P. Jones was the mastermind behind this small-town,... More

Bob Feller, Ozzie Smith, Bruce Sutter, Reggie Jackson, Hank Aaron and Rickey Henderson wave to the crowd on the porch of Hank Aaron boyhood home at the dedication ceremony at the Hank Aaron Boyhood Home Museum at the Hank Aaron Stadium, Mobile, Alabama

Bob Feller, Ozzie Smith, Bruce Sutter, Reggie Jackson, Hank Aaron and ...

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Phot... More

HillBilly Mall, Tuskegee, Alabama

HillBilly Mall, Tuskegee, Alabama

HillBilly Mall is built with recycled materials: trees from the last big April storm in Notasulga, a used rusty tin from an old demolished house leftover materials gathered from here and there mostly free! Titl... More

Captain Michael Dorie, who runs the 5 Rivers Delta Safaris can navigate the complex waterways of the Mobile-Tensaw Delta. A canoe trip up the Mobile Delta which consists of approximately 20,323 acres of water just north of Mobile Bay, Alabama

Captain Michael Dorie, who runs the 5 Rivers Delta Safaris can navigat...

Picryl description: Public domain image of fishing, fishing boat, river, lake, nature, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Fletcher Chapel, now known as First Tabernacle or First Tabernacle Beth El, 401 New York Ave., NW, in the Mount Vernon Square neighborhood of Washington, D.C.

Fletcher Chapel, now known as First Tabernacle or First Tabernacle Bet...

Constructed in 1854 by members of McKendree Methodist Church (the "mother church" of Fletcher Chapel), making it one of the oldest surviving houses of worship in Washington, D.C. Title, date, subject note, and... More

The U.S. Space & Rocket Center, Huntsville, Alabama

The U.S. Space & Rocket Center, Huntsville, Alabama

Home to Space Camp, Aviation Challenge, and X-Camp, the U.S. Space & Rocket Center is recognized as one of the most comprehensive U.S. manned space flight hardware museums in the world. Title, date, subject not... More

The Hopkins County Courthouse in Sulphur Springs in northeast Texas

The Hopkins County Courthouse in Sulphur Springs in northeast Texas

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Considered by many to rank among the most attractive of Texas's 254 current county courthouses, the Romanesque-style, granite-and-sand... More

Sixth Presbyterian Church, 5400 block of 16th St., NW, Washington, D.C.

Sixth Presbyterian Church, 5400 block of 16th St., NW, Washington, D.C...

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of District of Columbia Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Pr... More

Mardi Gras, Mobile, Alabama - Drawing. Public domain image.

Mardi Gras, Mobile, Alabama - Drawing. Public domain image.

Date from other Mardi Gras images in same group. Mardi Gras began in Mobile, Alabama in 1703 when it was a colony of French soldiers. Colorful beads and Moon Pies (two large cookies with marshmellow in between ... More

Five of the approximately 75 Kilgore College Rangerettes, a choreographed dance team that first formed in 1940

Five of the approximately 75 Kilgore College Rangerettes, a choreograp...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Kilgore College Rangers perform not only at football and other sports events at the small college in East Texas, but also at Dalla... More

Rough wooden crosses and peeling hand-lettered signs bearing Bible scripture fragments are nailed to fences, trees, and each other in the late W.C. Rice's stark Cross Garden, Prattville, Alabama

Rough wooden crosses and peeling hand-lettered signs bearing Bible scr...

If the late W.C. Rice's stark Cross Garden doesn't save you, there's no one to blame but yourself. His frightening jumble of white crosses cling to hills on either side of a curving county road next to a traile... More

Architect Stanley Bliss designed the brick Starr County Courthouse, which opened in 1939 in Rio Grande City, Texas

Architect Stanley Bliss designed the brick Starr County Courthouse, wh...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Grave of Joseph Stillwell Cain, Jr., in the Church Street Cemetery, Mobile, Alabama

Grave of Joseph Stillwell Cain, Jr., in the Church Street Cemetery, Mo...

Public domain photo of a monument, historic place, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Public Market Center, Seattle, Washington

Public Market Center, Seattle, Washington

Pike Place Market is a public market overlooking the Elliott Bay waterfront in Seattle, Washington, United States. The Market opened August 17, 1907, and is one of the oldest continually operated public farmers... More

Row houses, East Capitol St., Washington, D.C.

Row houses, East Capitol St., Washington, D.C.

East Capitol St. is a major street that divides the NE and SE quadrants of Washington, D.C. It runs due east from the U.S. Capitol to the DC-Maryland border. The western stretch of East Capitol St., which passe... More

Auditorium at the Perot Theatre, a landmark since 1924, when it opened as the Saenger Amusement Company's "Gateway to the West" movie theater in Texarkana, Texas

Auditorium at the Perot Theatre, a landmark since 1924, when it opened...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Fully restored by the City of Texarkana, Texas in 1979-80. Native son H. Ross Perot, through the Perot Foundation, contributed much o... More

Gee's Bend, Alabama - A body of water with trees in the background

Gee's Bend, Alabama - A body of water with trees in the background

Picryl description: Public domain image of a river or lake, forest, trees, water stream, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Gee's Bend, Alabama - Drawing. Public domain image.

Gee's Bend, Alabama - Drawing. Public domain image.

Gee's Bend, also known as Boykin, is a very poor tenant community in Alabama, lying at the edge of the Black Belt in Wilcox County, about thirty miles southwest of Selma. Gee's Bend is well known for it's quilt... More

Mardi Gras, Mobile, Alabama - Drawing. Public domain image.

Mardi Gras, Mobile, Alabama - Drawing. Public domain image.

Mardi Gras began in Mobile, Alabama in 1703 when it was a colony of French soldiers. Colorful beads and Moon Pies (two large cookies with marshmellow in between and covered with various flavors of chocolate) ar... More

"The Miracle Worker" play that is actually performed in the back yard of Ivy Green, the home in Tuscumbia, Alabama, where Helen Keller grew up and was born in 1880

"The Miracle Worker" play that is actually performed in the back yard ...

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Phot... More

Scene from the "Battle of Flowers" parade, part of the monthlong Fiesta San Antonio celebration in Texas

Scene from the "Battle of Flowers" parade, part of the monthlong Fiest...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. First held in 1891 to honor the heroes of the Alamo and the Battle of San Jacinto, the parade, in which local women decorated carriag... More

[Librarian's Room. South wall lunette with Pandora opening box. Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C.]

[Librarian's Room. South wall lunette with Pandora opening box. Librar...

Gift; Carol M. Highsmith 2010; (DLC/PP-2002:038) Forms part of the Library of Congress Series in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

The 1902-vintage Johnson Building in Santa Ynez, California

The 1902-vintage Johnson Building in Santa Ynez, California

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

Mardi Gras, Mobile, Alabama - Carol M. Highsmith photogrpahy

Mardi Gras, Mobile, Alabama - Carol M. Highsmith photogrpahy

Date from other Mardi Gras images in same group. Mardi Gras began in Mobile, Alabama in 1703 when it was a colony of French soldiers. Colorful beads and Moon Pies (two large cookies with marshmellow in between ... More

Joshua Tree National Park is located in southeastern California

Joshua Tree National Park is located in southeastern California

Declared a U.S. National Park in 1994 when the U.S. Congress passed the California Desert Protection Act, it had previously been a U.S. National Monument since 1936. It is named for the Joshua tree forests nati... More

LeDroit Park, a neighborhood in NW, Washington, D.C.

LeDroit Park, a neighborhood in NW, Washington, D.C.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a victorian era building, victorian house, 19th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Alabama born singer Eddie Levert at Alabama Country Music Hall of Fame concert for the Inductees into the Hall of Fame, Montgomery, Alabama

Alabama born singer Eddie Levert at Alabama Country Music Hall of Fame...

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Phot... More

Confederate flag made out of flowers at the Confederate Statue in Jasper, Alabama

Confederate flag made out of flowers at the Confederate Statue in Jasp...

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Phot... More

Eastern Market is a public market in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Washington, D.C.

Eastern Market is a public market in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of street life, food vendor, city market, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Youth football game at Cardozo Senior High School, 1200 Clifton St., NW, Washington, D.C.

Youth football game at Cardozo Senior High School, 1200 Clifton St., N...

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of District of Columbia Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Pr... More

Big Spring Park in Huntsville, Alabama

Big Spring Park in Huntsville, Alabama

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Phot... More

The Rickwood Classic baseball game is played once a year at Rickwood Ballpark located in Birmingham, Alabama

The Rickwood Classic baseball game is played once a year at Rickwood B...

Built in 1910, the famous Black Barons of the Negro Leagues also called Rickwood home during their existence. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Lan... More

Mardi Gras, Mobile, Alabama - Drawing. Public domain image.

Mardi Gras, Mobile, Alabama - Drawing. Public domain image.

Date from other Mardi Gras images in same group. Mardi Gras began in Mobile, Alabama in 1703 when it was a colony of French soldiers. Colorful beads and Moon Pies (two large cookies with marshmellow in between ... More

Committee of the Defense of the Revolution (CDR) hand painted murals are everywhere in Havana, Cuba

Committee of the Defense of the Revolution (CDR) hand painted murals a...

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith; 2010; (DLC/PP-2... More

Jeannette Landphair sells her artwork at the historic Eastern Market in Washington, D.C.

Jeannette Landphair sells her artwork at the historic Eastern Market i...

Housed in a 19th century brick building, the market is located on 7th St., SE, a few blocks east of the U.S. Capitol between North Carolina Ave. and C St. Badly damaged by an early-morning fire on April 30, 200... More

Photographer Carol M. Highsmith joins Sharon Tyson and visiting children as they interact with a colorful artistic illusion screen at the ArtWorks exhibit in the Museum of Fine Art, Montgomery, Alabama

Photographer Carol M. Highsmith joins Sharon Tyson and visiting childr...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Alabama, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A canoe trip up the Mobile Delta, which consists of approximately 20,323 acres of water just north of Mobile Bay, Alabama

A canoe trip up the Mobile Delta, which consists of approximately 20,3...

Public domain image of swamp, wetland, water, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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